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Advanced Use of Learning Technologies in Higher Education
Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Until now established LMS are rather a database for files like Power Point, PDF or Word than used in a sophisticated way. The consortium reviewed multiple studies which are dealing with this issue and the reasons why lecturer at the Universities use Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) only very basically. The main barriers the consortium could identify in these surveys are the following: (1) time, (2) motivation (more examples and evidence that technology is at least not having a negative impact), (3) institutional and cultural factors e.g. strategy for the development of technology enhanced learning department or concepts for support (financial, technological, pedagogical) and (4) self-efficacy/ self-confidence. Since all partners of the consortium face the same defiance, the consortium wants to provide the lecturer with the relevant information on how to use TEL in the daily teaching in an advanced way based on these barriers. The consortium consists of partners from Finland (HUMAK), Germany (LUE), Hungary (KF), Italy (Pixel), Netherlands (OUNL), Portugal (IPB), and Spain (UCM). The partners were chosen based on their experiences, competencies and existing networks. All partners will be involved in the development of all the products and support the responsible partner in order to accomplish the goals and will profit from the knowledge of other partners. Based on the diverse backgrounds and different fields of work the partners complement each other with their experiences. LUE has experience in coordinating projects and expertise in methods for TEL. IPB has substantial knowledge in TEL technologies and the use of tools while KF has strong experience in teaching in Higher Education and in the use of teaching methods from the perspective of a lecturer. UCM has a tradition and experience in analyzing actual strategies and creating new ones to improve old methodologies working with ICT. HUMAK, OUNL and Pixel are new partners with very strong skills related to TEL, research, quality management, dissemination and exploitation.In order to create this information pool AduLeT will implement a support system as a community of practice (CoP). AduLeT will develop different intellectual outputs as OER in the CoP to overcome the mentioned barriers. The outputs will be teaching methods, guidelines for the effective use of TEL tools, research paper and case studies. The description of the teaching methods and the guidelines are based on two different templates which already exist. Nevertheless these templates will be improved and the consortium will describe multiple teaching methods and guidelines for the effective use of TEL by means of the templates. All these descriptions will be published on the CoP. The existing surveys mentioned above will be enriched by modern research technologies, tailored to the partners’ needs and performed at each partner university. The results and additionally a guideline of how to enrich, tailor and perform such surveys will also be published on the CoP and as research paper. Finally a collection of already existing strategies, support concepts and facts about TEL like the effect of TEL on the learning outcomes will be summarized and linked on the CoP to provide the lecturer with further information. The European Union claims that there should be more OER and digital content accessible especially in higher education. But most of the lecturer in the context of higher education have either not the skills or time to provide the teaching materials also as digital content or OER. Therefore AduLeT will provide a CoP for lecturer with suitable teaching methods for TEL. The lecturer can also find in the CoP guidelines for the effective use of TEL tools and the tools itselfs. The CoP will also provide the possibility to get into contact with other lecturers and to share experiences about teaching with TEL tools.

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